>>46559338Juan has been defeated but at a great cost. His Kingdra was a brutal special attacker, and even my special walls like Dusknoir and Venusaur couldn't take a hit. Surf took 1/3rd of Venusaur's healthy, while it reduced Dusknoir down to 6 HP remaining. I needed to make a choice, to go to Venusaur and hope Thick Fat would let it survive an Ice Beam and get off the win, or to go into Starmie, and pray that Kingdra's ridiculous power didn't kill it even with a Not Very Effective Hit.
I chose wrong, and for that, Saurian the Venusaur died. The worst part, I gave myself knowledge I shouldn't have, I reloaded the save, played the battle to the point where I had to make the choice again... and Starmie was correct, it would have survived. And for my stupidity, I've lost Saurian.
Now, my only remaining goal is to face the Elite 4.
